UOW SAFE@WORK WORKING WITH HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS AND DANGEROUS GOODS GUIDELINES ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HRD-WHS-GUI-114.17 Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines 2020 September Page 1 of 35 Hardcopies of this document are considered uncontrolled please refer to UOW website or intranet for latest version Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 4 2 Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 Hazardous Chemicals versus Dangerous Goods ............................................................... 4 3 Definitions .................................................................................................................................. 5 4 Responsibilities ........................................................................................................................... 7 4.1 Executive Deans and Directors ......................................................................................... 7 4.2 Heads of School and Managers of Units ........................................................................... 7 4.3 Laboratory Managers and Supervisors .............................................................................. 7 4.4 Workers, Students and Others ........................................................................................... 7 5 Consultation ................................................................................................................................ 7 6 Regulatory Requirements ........................................................................................................... 8 6.1 Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) ....... 8 6.2 Classification ..................................................................................................................... 8 6.3 Labelling ........................................................................................................................... 9 6.4 Safety Data Sheets (SDS) ................................................................................................ 13 6.5 Hazardous Chemicals Register ....................................................................................... 14 6.6 Manifest and Placarding Requirements .......................................................................... 14 6.7 Restricted Hazardous Chemicals ..................................................................................... 16 6.8 Chemicals of Security Concern ....................................................................................... 16 6.9 Security Sensitive Dangerous Substances ....................................................................... 16 6.10 Scheduled Drugs and Poisons ......................................................................................... 16 7 Laboratory Safety Inductions ................................................................................................... 17 8 Emergency Response ................................................................................................................ 17 9 Hazardous Waste Disposal ....................................................................................................... 17 10 Purchasing ................................................................................................................................ 18 11 Storage ...................................................................................................................................... 18 11.1 Storage Cabinets .............................................................................................................. 19 11.2 Secondary Containment .................................................................................................. 21 12 Transport ................................................................................................................................... 21 13 Risk Management ..................................................................................................................... 21 13.1 Hazard Identification ....................................................................................................... 21 13.2 Risk Assessment.............................................................................................................. 21 13.3 Basic Risk Assessment .................................................................................................... 22 13.4 Hazardous Chemical Risk Assessment (Detailed Risk Assessment) .............................. 23 13.5 Assessing Risk ................................................................................................................ 23 13.6 Risk Control Strategies ................................................................................................... 24 13.7 Monitoring and Review ................................................................................................... 26 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HRD-WHS-GUI-114.17 Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines 2020 September Page 2 of 35 Hardcopies of this document are considered uncontrolled please refer to UOW website or intranet for latest version Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines 13.8 Risk Control Strategies ................................................................................................... 27 14 Health Monitoring .................................................................................................................... 27 15 Records ..................................................................................................................................... 27 15.1 Induction and Training .................................................................................................... 27 15.2 Maintenance, Inspections and Repairs ............................................................................ 28 15.3 Records of Risk Assessments.......................................................................................... 28 15.4 Documentation ................................................................................................................ 28 16 Program Evaluation .................................................................................................................. 28 17 Related Documents ................................................................................................................... 28 18 Referenced Documents ............................................................................................................. 29 18.1 Legislation & Codes of Practice ..................................................................................... 29 18.2 Australian Standards ....................................................................................................... 29 18.3 Guidance Material ........................................................................................................... 30 19 Version Control Table .............................................................................................................. 31 Appendix 1 – Comparison of Hazard Pictograms with ADG Code Class Labels ............................. 32 Appendix 2 - Placarding & Manifest Quantities ................................................................................ 34 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HRD-WHS-GUI-114.17 Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines 2020 September Page 3 of 35 Hardcopies of this document are considered uncontrolled please refer to UOW website or intranet for latest version Working With Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods Guidelines 1 Introduction The University of Wollongong is committed to a safe and healthy workplace for workers, students, contractors and visitors. The object of this guideline, in accordance with legislation, is to manage risks to health and safety that can result from exposure to hazardous chemicals at the University of Wollongong. 2 Scope This guideline is the University’s program for the safe use, handing, storage, transfer, inventory management and transport of hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods. This guideline does not apply to the following products if their use is not related to a work activity: . food . therapeutic agents . cosmetics . tobacco and tobacco products . toiletries and toilet products . hazardous chemicals which are used and are in quantities that are consistent with household use. The guidelines also do not apply to: . any chemical that only has radioactive hazards i.e. class 7 dangerous goods (refer to the University Radiation Safety Guidelines) . most class 9 (miscellaneous) dangerous goods . any infectious substance of biological origin i.e any viable micro-organism, such as a bacterium, virus, rickettsia, parasite, fungus, recombinant, hybrid or mutant, that is known or reasonably believed to cause disease in humans or animals (refer to the University Biosafety